Daniel Schneider is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
Am J Public Health. 2020 Apr;110(4):499-504. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305481. Epub 2020 Feb 20.
To estimate if Washington State's paid sick leave law increased access to paid sick leave, reduced employees' working while sick, and relieved care burdens. I drew on new data from 12 772 service workers collected before and after the law took effect in January 2018 in Washington State and over the same time period in comparison states that did not have paid sick leave requirements. I used difference-in-difference models to estimate the effects of the law. The law expanded workers' access to paid sick leave by 28 percentage points ( < .001). The law reduced the share of workers who reported working while sick by 8 percentage points ( < .05). Finally, there was little evidence that the law served to reduce work-life conflict for Washington workers. Mandated paid sick leave increased access to paid sick leave benefits and led to reductions in employees' working while sick. However, covered workers did not experience reductions in work-life conflict in the period immediately following passage.
为了评估华盛顿州的带薪病假法是否增加了带薪病假的可及性、减少了员工带病工作的情况，并缓解了护理负担。我利用了 2018 年 1 月该法生效前后在华盛顿州和同期没有带薪病假要求的比较州收集的 12772 名服务工作者的新数据。我使用了差异中的差异模型来估计该法的效果。该法将工人获得带薪病假的比例扩大了 28 个百分点（ < .001）。该法将报告带病工作的工人比例降低了 8 个百分点（ < .05）。最后，几乎没有证据表明该法有助于减轻华盛顿州工人的工作生活冲突。强制带薪病假增加了带薪病假福利的可及性，并导致员工带病工作的情况减少。然而，在该法通过后的一段时间内，受保工人并没有经历工作生活冲突的减少。
